Friday, January 23, 2009

Parents' Golden Anniversary video



We visited family in Taiwan and the Philippines in summer of 2008—it was my first time back to Asia in 13 years. The timing for the trip was my parents' golden anniversary. While there, I put together a 12-minute slideshow of photos using animoto.com. The slideshow had photos of my parents from their youth through adulthood, and each of the nine ABC kids and extended families. There were nearly 200 photos set to a medley of songs from The Sound of Music. My dad is a fan.

The above video is a 3-minute shorter version of how animoto.com takes your photos and music and sets up the photos through animated transitions according tot the pacing of the music. It's pretty neat how it does that.

You can check out animoto and create free 30-second videos. But if you're interested in signing up for a year's subscription, let me know and I'll send you the referral code to save $5.00 off the yearly fee.